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LECTURES and CONFERENCES Recovering Afghanistan's Past: Cultural Heritage in Context Conference/Symposium | November 14 – 15, 2008International House, Chevron Auditorium http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2008.11.14w.html The "Recovering Afghanistan's Past: Cultural Heritage in Context" conference will focus on Afghanistan's cultural heritage in its past and present contexts and bring together scholars from various disciplines to address, among others, the following issues:
-The recovered objects from the National Museum
-Recent research and preservation/renovation projects
-Challenges of cultural heritage protection
-The complexities of 'targeted' heritage
-Cultural heritage and identity
Event Contact: 510-642-9490
This conference is organized in conjunction with the "Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul" exhibit which will be on display at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, October 24, 2008 - January 25, 2009. For more information regarding the organization of the exhibit by National Geographic Society, please visit http:// www.nationalgeographic.com/ mission/ afghanistan-treasures/
Walls and Barricades (2 Day Conference) Conference/Symposium | November 14 | 2-6 p.m. | 335 Dwinelle Hall Panelist/Discussants: Dario Biocca, University of Perugia, Italy; Richard Wittman, UC Santa Barbara; Mark Traugott, UC Santa Cruz; Jordan Rose, UC Berkeley Moderator: Carla Hesse, UC Berkeley Speaker/Performer: Yuri Slezkine, UC Berkeley Event Contact: 510-643-2115
Sponsors: Institute of European Studies, French Studies, History Department
From Belfast to Cyprus, from Rome and Paris, across Germany, to the siege of Leningrad, this interdisciplinary conference explores the political, social, economic, and cultural histories of walls and barricades in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe. Written texts of the papers will be available a week before the conference, so as to maximize discussion and the presentation of visual sources.
"Patterns of Interaction in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Painting" Lecture | November 19 | 4-6 p.m. | Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton), IEAS Conference Room, 6th Floor http://ieas.berkeley.edu:8002/events/2008.11.19.html
Speaker: James Cahill, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Sponsors: History of Art, Department of, East Asian Studies, Institute of (IEAS), Chinese Studies, Center for (CCS) Event Contact: 510-643-6321
Put together as an opening "keynote address" for a symposium in Seoul titled "Beyond Boundaries: An International Symposium on Chinese and Korean Painting," this talk attempts some large observations about cross-cultural borrowings of styles and motifs between the three great East Asian cultures: how the attractions that foreign styles hold for artists in a culture may differ from the judgments that its critics and book-writers may make of them, so that the borrowings can be recognized only visually, not through textual research; how the prestige of Chinese painting has led until recently to constructions of its interrelationship with Japanese painting that were not truly two-way; and how the same is still true of Chinese and Korean painting, a situation we should begin trying to remedy.
WEB WALKING: FOCUS ON GEORGIA "Berkeley Professors Weigh in on the Crisis in the Caucasus" http://ias.berkeley.edu/node/244
A brief summary of a panel of Berkeley foreign policy experts convened on Sept. 4 at a forum on the Caucasus sponsored by Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Clash in the Caucasus: Georgia, Russia, and the Fate of South Ossetia, by Stephen F. Jones From November 2008 issue of Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective - a free, non-commercial publication from the Public History Initiative and eHistory in Ohio State University's History Department.The brief war in Georgia in August 2008 has ushered in a new era in international relations—although likely not the "new cold war" that so many analysts have rushed to declare. In this month’s article, Stephen F. Jones, one of the world’s foremost specialists on Georgia, explores the origins of this summer’s fighting. The war’s main protagonists—Georgians, Ossetians, Abkhaz, and Russians—have had a long and tangled history, made worse by the swirling nationalism that accompanied the break-up of the Soviet Union, the promise of free-flowing petrodollars, Russia’s international resurgence, and the United States’ recent, active involvement in the region.
Origins can be found at http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/ [the podcast is found at http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/podcasts.cfm]
WEB WALKING: FOCUS ON INTERVIEWING For the web site Conversations With History, Harry Kreisler is Executive Director of the Institute of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, interviews distinguished men and women from all over the world about their lives and their work. At the heart of each interview is a focus on individuals and ideas that make a difference. A collection of the large library of interviews is organized by theme with classroom use in mind. These theme pages focus on an idea that cuts across the curriculum and that finds its way into different lesson plans at different times of the year. The Art of Interviewinghttp://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/CSW/themes/interviewers.html
Human Values http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/EdModule/values.html
Teachers, Mentors, and Heroeshttp://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/PubEd/CSW/themes/mentors.html
Womens' Rights11th-12th GRADE women's rights unit
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/women/
WEB WALKING: FOCUS ON CHINA The China Beat: Blogging How the East is Read is a U. C Berkeley blog examining media coverage of China, providing context and criticism from China scholars and writers as well as links to current China media coverage. http://thechinabeat.blogspot.com.
Beijing Beat – Todd Carrel and his intrepid journalism students at UCB have posted the most recent set of Digital TV and the World reports from San Francisco and Beijing. As China's capital takes on a modern look, current and former residents sense a new dynamism -- and new tensions -- in the old city. This series of intimate reports looks at the challenges and choices faced by Beijing's ordinary people. Digital TV and the World is an initiative at the Graduate School of Journalism to create new styles of global reportage that take a close-up look at ordinary people and the issues they face. Students in the program begin by telling the stories of people who live in diaspora communities in California, then examine the fabric of life in communities overseas by traveling abroad on intensive reporting assignments. The resulting short videos are webcast by the Washington Post as "Emerging Voices" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/emergingvoices/index.html
Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial ChinaFrom Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena — Online Exhibits with teaching ideas and resources for educatorshttp://www.pacificasiamuseum.org/rankandstyle/index.stm
Dressing in Imperial China is the story of how status, so desperately sought and carefully preserved among China’s elite, was expressed through insignia of rank and the robes and accessories that went with them. For members of the emperor’s court in China’s Ming (1368-1644) and Qing dynasties (1644-1911), the cloth symbols sewn to their robes conferred status and power. What were the power symbols? And who was entitled to wear them?
Intro: Rank and Style: Power Dressing in Imperial China [121KB]
Section 1: Dragons and Phoenixes: Badges for the Imperial Family [882KB]
Section 2: Cranes and Peacocks: Rank Badges for Civil Officials [925KB]
Section 3: Lions and Tigers: Rank Badges for Military Officers [527KB]
Section 4: Peonies and Lanterns: Badges for Festivals and Ceremonies [615KB]
Section 5: Beyond the Forbidden City: The Badge as Icon [438KB]
Image Credits
Textile Terms: A glossary of Rank and Style's textile-related terms. This glossary can be adapted by teachers as a vocabulary list.
Symbols: Also in glossary format.
Chronology
Discussion Questions
Reading List & Links
Other on-line exhibits at Pacific Asia MuseumVisions of Enlightenment: Understanding the Art of Buddhism
Nature of the Beast: Animals in Japanese Edo Period Paintings and Prints
TRAVEL Global Exploration for Educators Organization (GEEO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization that helps and encourages educators to travel abroad. In the summer of 2009 GEEO will run trips to Tunisia, Tanzania, Peru, Ecuador, Thailand, and India. GEEO hopes to make America more outward-looking by helping teachers travel and then giving them an effective way to share these experiences in their classrooms. Educators can earn graduate school credit and professional development credit while seeing the world. The trips are designed for teachers and include activities such as school visits and homestays that give participants authentic exposure to local culture. The trips are deeply discounted so as to be affordable to teachers. GEEO also helps teachers find funding to subsidize the cost of the trips.
Detailed information about each trip, including itineraries, costs, travel dates, and more can be found at www.geeo.org. GEEO can also be reached 7 days a week, toll free at 1-877-600-0105 between 9AM-10PM EST. To sign-up for GEEO's listserv, please send an email to listserv@geeo.org with the subject line "subscribe."
Contact: Jesse Weisz
Toll-free: 1-877-600-0105 Mobile: 1-202-725-2151
jesse@geeo.org www.geeo.org
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